Hello all,
I've been reading your posts about the above with great interest. Some details of Edward and Helen's children: Adelaide married Austin Downey Williams at Auckland in 1923 and Edith married Joseph England Noonan at Devonport, Auckland in 1916, these I found from a tree on Ancestry. I contacted the owner who said that she thought that Moss-Mason was an adopted son of Edward and Helen?
The Noonans' had 3 children, one of whom Gabrielle Violet married Christopher John Martin Morgan West between 1950-1954, one of their children, Marilyn is a cousin of the tree owner but as yet is not contactable-all I can glean is that she works in real estate and she lives on the north side of Auckland on the north island. There is another daughter Sheridan Elizabeth who lived with her parents 1978-1981 at Manurewa and a son Christopher who I can't trace at all.
Helen Honnor was the daughter of Henry Honnor and Jane Watkins Healey, the latter being the daughter of James Healey b1806, the subject of an earlier post on here as he emigrated to NZ from England.
Looking at the NZ electoral rolls, I saw Helen Moss in Epsom, Onehunga and in the same area the Mason-Moss couple, also a John Mason at a separate address in that area.
If the owner of the Ancestry tree is correct regarding Edirh and Adelaide's marriages she may be correct regarding Moss-Mason's adoption.
Are there any adoption records available there for that period?
Cr